scholarly journals Securing the Male Breadwinner: A Feminist Interpretation of PC 1003

2005 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Forrest
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Feminist Interpretation ◽  
Male Breadwinner ◽  
Union Representation ◽  
Male Model ◽  
Working Class Women

First, the author argues that labour's rights have been effectively the rights of working-class men because only men were constructed as family breadwinners for whom collective bargaining was both necessary and legitimate. Working-class women, by contrast, were defined as "non-working" wives and mothers, so had no claim to steady jobs at good wages or to union representation in their own right. Secondly, PC 1003 accorded rights to men (but not women) inasmuch as it codified an "industrial model" of workers' rights. Thirdly, PC 1003 supported and encouraged the growth of a "male model" of collective bargaining. Finally, the author briefly discusses the implications of a gendered analysis of PC 1003 for the study of industrial relations.

The role of collective bargaining in addressing flexibility and security

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 329-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina Paolucci
Keyword(s):  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Organizational Characteristics ◽  
Considerable Degree ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Explanatory Variables ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
Union Representation ◽  
Multi Level

This article examines the role of collective bargaining in addressing flexibility and security in the chemical and pharmaceutical sector in Italy and Denmark. My multi-level and comparative focus on collective bargaining highlights that sector-level industrial relations institutions account for a considerable degree of within-country homogeneity in the content of company agreements over issues of flexibility and security. Moreover, it shows that the degree of company-level heterogeneity is conditioned primarily by firm-level contingencies: union representation and organizational characteristics. This means that at company level, both institutional and non-institutional structures are important explanatory variables.

The New Industrial Relations: British Electricians' New-Style Agreements

ILR Review ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard Rico
Keyword(s):  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Employee Participation ◽  
Labor Flexibility ◽  
Final Offer ◽  
Union Representation ◽  
Managerial Strategies ◽  
Managerial Employees

This study analyzes the response of the British Electricians' Union to economic adversity, and to new managerial strategies, as embodied in the union's novel agreements in three Japanese-owned British electronics firms. These agreements provide that the union is the sole bargaining representative in each firm; most British plants, by contrast, have multiple-union representation. Most of the new-style agreements also contain a no-strike clause, final-offer arbitration of interest disputes, and measures to increase labor flexibility, reduce the diversity in conditions among plant, office, and managerial employees, and enhance employee participation in major company decisions. The author views these agreements as evidence that fundamental changes in collective bargaining relationships are taking place.

scholarly journals ‘The View from Over the Hill’: Developing a Balanced View of Blackball ’08 from a Wider Range of Perspectives

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie Nolan
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
The Political ◽  
Working Class Women ◽  
The Hill

On the occasion of the centenary of the Blackball strike of 1908, the author reviews the strike from the perspectives of socialist urban labour, socio-cultural as well as the political and ideological aspects, the employers' position and the role of working-class women in New Zealand. The strike was about the rising expectations of workers who wanted something more than the industrial relations system was delivering.

Managing Decentralization: The Strategy of Institutional Differentiation in German Industrial Relations

1999 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 52-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Schroeder ◽  
Rainer Weinert
Keyword(s):  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Collective Bargaining Agreement ◽  
The Political ◽  
Process Of Change ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
Institutional Differentiation ◽  
The Welfare State

The approach of the new millennium appears to signal the demiseof traditional models of social organization. The political core ofthis process of change—the restructuring of the welfare state—andthe related crisis of the industrywide collective bargaining agreementhave been subjects of much debate. For some years now inspecialist literature, this debate has been conducted between theproponents of a neo-liberal (minimally regulated) welfare state andthe supporters of a social democratic model (highly regulated). Thealternatives are variously expressed as “exit vs. voice,” “comparativeausterity vs. progressive competitiveness,” or “deregulation vs.cooperative re-regulation.”

Legal Expertise: A Critical Resource for Trade Unionists? Insights into the Confédération Française Démocratique du Travail

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cécile Guillaume
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Institutional Power ◽  
Collective Redress ◽  
Critical Resource ◽  
The Law ◽  
Legal Expertise

Abstract Based on in-depth qualitative research conducted in one of the major French trade unions (the CFDT), this article explores to what extent and under what conditions trade unions adopt different legal practices to further their members’ interests. In particular, it investigates how ‘legal framing’ has taken an increasingly pervasive place in trade union work, in increasingly decentralised industrial relations contexts, such as France. This article therefore argues that the use of the law has become a multifaceted and embedded repertoire of action for the CFDT in its attempt to consolidate its institutional power through various strategies, including collective redress and the use of legal expertise in collective bargaining and representation work.

scholarly journals Internal devaluation and economic inequality in Portugal: challenges to industrial relations in times of crisis and recovery

2021 ◽  
pp. 102425892199500
Author(s):  
Maria da Paz Campos Lima ◽  
Diogo Martins ◽  
Ana Cristina Costa ◽  
António Velez
Keyword(s):  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Wage Inequality ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
National Level ◽  
Wage Share ◽  
Recovery Dynamics ◽  
Wage Increases ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Wage Outcomes

Internal devaluation policies imposed in southern European countries since 2010 have weakened labour market institutions and intensified wage inequality and the falling wage share. The debate in the wake of the financial and economic crisis raised concerns about slow wage growth and persistent economic inequality. This article attempts to shed light on this debate, scrutinising the case of Portugal in the period 2010–2017. Mapping the broad developments at the national level, the article examines four sectors, looking in particular at the impact of minimum wages and collective bargaining on wage trends vis-à-vis wage inequality and wage share trajectories. We conclude that both minimum wage increases and the slight recovery of collective bargaining had a positive effect on wage outcomes and were important in reducing wage inequality. The extent of this reduction was limited, however, by uneven sectoral recovery dynamics and the persistent effects of precarious work, combined with critical liberalisation reforms.

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